 However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about. |
| In actuality, there was casting for the show and it was pretty difficult. |
| I'm in a loft and the kitchen is in the very center of the apartment. The whole place revolves around it. |
| If I have committed any culinary atrocities, please forgive me. |
| My place in Chicago is a 105 year old house, but I really like contemporary spaces too, so it's refreshing and fun to be in a space where you can do contemporary things. |
| Because the show is popular, people do recognize us on the streets. |
| You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame. |
| Oh, did I tell you I have a cookbook? I have a cookbook deal. |
| No, Queer Eye has a book coming out before mine, in the Spring of 2004, in which each of us has a section and we do a brief overview of our subject area. |
| I like to have friends in the kitchen and make a big mess and use every pot in the kitchen. |
| The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are. |
| Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day. |
| I am much more interested in the process than results. |
| Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is a form of service journalism. To be successful, I think it has to be a combination of a good story, it has to be funny, and it also needs to be packed with useful information. |
| I think that curiosity happened on these reviews where I was just a guest of the reviewer, because it introduced me to new cuisines and to the idea of cooking as a mechanism for studying other cultures and understanding other parts of the world. |
| For each episode the five of us are all wearing clothes by the same designer. It's a different designer for each episode, but for each one we're all wearing their clothes. |
| Thom is one of those wonderful people to cook for because he absolutely loves it, just loves it. He loves to eat and drink and he'd be a great guest at any dinner party. |
| What I bring to the table is a huge enthusiasm and love for this stuff. |
| I had a really good time with Martha Stewart, who also is somebody I really admire a lot. I've learned a lot from her and I think all of America has, about attention to detail and using fresh ingredients and making things beautiful and special. |
| Well, we don't take money from people and then show the product. It has to be a product that we like anyway, and that's true for all five of us, which is one of the really nice things about the way we make the show. |
